Rochester and Strood polluted by sewage 152 times in 2022 - lasting 244 hours

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Totals for Rochester and Strood in 2022
14 Sites polluted by Southern Water
152 sewage dumps
244 h duration
That's 10.17 days. 2.9 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rochester and Strood in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Medway Estuary CHATHAM HILL OUTSIDE 425 CSO 52 96 81.9
Southern Water River Medway Estuary HOO WWPS 10 69 99.8
Southern Water River Medway Estuary BRAMBLETREE CRESCENT BORSTAL CEO 9 14 98.4
Southern Water Tidal River Medway BRYANT ROAD STROOD 13 14 83.5
Southern Water River Medway Estuary FURRELLS ROAD, ROCHESTER CSO 19 10 100
Southern Water River Medway CSO AT GODDINGTON ROAD STROOD 15 9 70.4
Southern Water Medway Estuary GRAIN WWTW 9 7 99.5
Southern Water River Medway DOCK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 7 6 92.9
Southern Water Cliffe Creek MARSH LANE CLIFFE CEO 5 6 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary VICARAGE ROAD STROOD WPS 4 3 99.9
Southern Water Tidal Estuary Of River Medway NORTHGATE ROCHESTER CSO 2 2 56.4
Southern Water Medway Estuary CHARLES STREET STROOD CSO 3 1 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary CLOVER STREET CHATHAM CSO 3 0 52.7
Southern Water River Medway Estuary GROVE ROAD STROOD CSO 1 0 75.8
Southern Water Tidal River Medway MARSH ROAD, HALLING COMBINED EO 0 0 99.9
Southern Water River Medway Estuary HIGH STREET ROCHESTER CSO 0 0 27.2
Southern Water River Medway CONCORD AVENUE CHATHAM CSO 0 0 11.8
Southern Water River Medway ROCHESTER AVENUE ROCHESTER CSO 0 0 5.3
Southern Water Tidal River Medway CUXTON COMBINED EMERGENCY OVERFLOW 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Medway Estuary FRINDSBURY ROAD STROOD CSO 0 0 87.1
Southern Water Whitewall Creek WHITEWALL CREEK WWTW 0 0 99.9
Southern Water River Medway NORTH HALLING WWPS 0 0 100
Southern Water Tidal Estaury Of River Medway CORPORATION ST ROCHESTER NO 2 CSO 0 0 0
Southern Water River Medway Estuary CORPORATION STREET ROCHESTER CEO 0 0 0
Southern Water River Medway CASTLE HILL ROCHESTER CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water Saline Estuary NEW BROOK PUMPING STATION 0 0 66.2

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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